There are definitely some online degrees that are not legit.  The most entertaining one I heard about was a man who worked for the government.  This just shows how competent they are.  They actually conduct supposedly thorough background checks not only on you, but also on your family, apparently not thorough enough.  He started at a low end job, under the assumption still that he had a degree.  He quickly progressed up through the stages of government jobs, which frankly quite a few incompetent people do from what I’ve seen.  It’s interesting enough right? 

But anyway, he got all the way up and was being nationally recognized when a reporter who was covering him actually bothered checking into his credentials, which obviously the government did not bother to do.  They found out that his degree was one of those life experience degrees you pay $50 for through the mail.  That was a big embarrassment for them, and then it came out that they had estimated that a significant part of the government employed population was actually doing the same thing. 

Granted most of them don’t actually rise to those prestigious levels in general.  But that is beside the point.  The point is that these people who obtain fake online degrees get descent government jobs that they aren’t qualified for, and apparently they don’t really pay enough attention to catch it beforehand.  I found that encouraging….